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I agree, I went through countless chargers trying to save a buck and they either failed prematurely, false peaked, over charged packs, or had some sort of issue. I finally ponied up and bought a quality charger and have never regretted it. My Hyperion is close to 3 years old now and is still serving myself and my batteries very well.

I agree, I went through countless chargers trying to save a buck and they either failed prematurely, false peaked, over charged packs, or had some sort of issue. I finally ponied up and bought a quality charger and have never regretted it. My Hyperion is close to 3 years old now and is still serving myself and my batteries very well.

I really wanted to look at different chargers and was hoping that the hobby store that I went to had the Traxxas EZ-Peak 2 Amp, but they only had two Dynamite ones to pick from. One (the one that I got) can charge up to 2 amps on AC and 4 on AC, and the other can charge 4 amps on AC and 4 on DC, so I only needed 2 amps for AC, and it was cheaper, so I picked that one.

from what I can tell, none of the recommended chargers seem to come with a Traxxas male

so you have to factor in an extra $6 to $10 to get an adapter (or banana->Traxxas lead) for someone who's not about to venture into soldering. $4 more if you solder.

Am I wrong in this?

I just had to buy an adapter for my batteries. No problems so far, easy to install (snaps right in) and works fine.

Here is my picture from Picasa:

For what it does, the adapter really isn't that much money. About $7 and works great. If you don't want to solder anything, this is the way to go.

And, even though (at the current time) it says that I am an R/C Qualifier, I'm a newbie, too, bhchan. I've only been on these forums for about a month. My first real R/C truck was the E-Revo VXL 1/16 Brushless (hence my name) and I just have had a lot of questions and was interested in the other forums and managed to rack up over 300 posts (so far).

LiFe packs are awesome... almost.
Pack size/weight per mAh is not the greatest when compared to LiPo...
But there is not as much danger with LiFe...
a trade off.

However, charging batteries faster than you can discharge them...
and doing this safely...
is like a little slice of heaven.

But, think of this:
With LiPo and this high of an ampere rate, I can safely charge 6 2200 mAh batteries at 1.5C (19.8a) in parallel... Roughly an hour and a half of driving with less than an hour of charging...
~So with 12 batteries, I could go all day long and still give them proper cool-down time.

LiFe packs are awesome... almost.
Pack size/weight per mAh is not the greatest when compared to LiPo...
But there is not as much danger with LiFe...
a trade off.

However, charging batteries faster than you can discharge them...
and doing this safely...
is like a little slice of heaven.

But, think of this:
With LiPo and this high of an ampere rate, I can safely charge 6 2200 mAh batteries at 1.5C (19.8a) in parallel... Roughly an hour and a half of driving with less than an hour of charging...
~So with 12 batteries, I could go all day long and still give them proper cool-down time.